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Here are the lessons of the week for zig-zag fencing:

1. Use bricks instead of rocks for the supports if you have spare bricks laying around. They are easier to deal with since any old rock can cause issues due to their irregular shapes and sizes.

2. Pay attention to your line. Even though you aren't digging fence posts or surveying your lines, at the very least 'sight' your fence as you lay it out and try to keep your zig-zag points flowing in a nice smooth curve. If you get in a hurry and just start stacking logs without paying attention to where your fence is going, it will look sloppy.

3. Keep the length of the logs within an inch or two of each other. Again, this fence is seems like it allows for a lot of wiggle-room, but too much wiggle will show. Measure, measure, measure.

4. Try keeping larger logs on the bottom and smaller ones on top. I mix them up a good deal but I never have a log on the top larger then the bottom log. Structurally it doesn't matter much at all.

5. Get a Fiskars axe. Fiskars has to be the best in the world at making cutting tools. Mine still cuts like butter and I really abuse it. I use this axe to trim the limbs off of the logs. A chainsaw is a waste of time and clippers are just way too slow. Use an axe on the limbs.

That's all for now. Don't go cutting down all the trees in your neighborhood now trying to make this fence.